… and there was also talk about a possible BDP-CHP alliance for the elections. Interestingly BDP officials seemed to be more enthusiastic for the alliance but nationalists sensibilities of CHP leaders prevented such an alliance in near times…

Republican People?s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, who recently won an intraparty fight against former CHP Secretary-General Önder Sav, is taking radical steps to prove and strengthen his leadership.

With its new leader, Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, the Republican People?s Party (CHP) has been in the midst of a transformation towards social democracy. Although many people find Mr. Kılıçdaroğlu cynical and do not trust what he says, at least the messages he is delivering indicate a possible transformation of the CHP?s old fashioned, neo-nationalist political discourse.

One of the most striking political developments over the four-day Eid al-Adha festival was the Republican People?s Party (CHP) welcoming a proposal from the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) for an election alliance.

The belief that Turkish military coups are different like our other jobs from rest of the world became a popular idea among intellectuals including political scientists, as so far. According to this assumption, our soldiers would do the job and leave the rest to civilians in a short time. In other words, our Army is different from the armies of Latin America or relatively poorer countries of Asia and Africa.

John Bowen?s book ?Can Islam Be French? Pluralism and Pragmatism in a Secularist State? was reviewed in Greece by Dr. Panagiotis Vogiatzis for Greek language journal The Books? Journal, published in Athens in October.